Key Findings from the Report: 1. 79 percent of decision makers believe more training is needed within their organization in relation to big data. 2. 61 percent stated they were hired to support the process of training employees on cloud solutions. 3. 41 percent learners stated that they have a limited understanding of big data. 4. 28 percent learners stated their top concern was knowing how to select the most useful data. 5. While 54 percent of decision makers are investing in cloud solutions, the research findings showed that 19 percent of these individuals do not have any budget allocated to training. 6. Across organizations, email systems, customer relationship management (CRM) and learning management systems (LMS) were the hottest cloud solutions being adopted.

The Skillsoft report focusses on the decision makers and learners’ views on both cloud solutions and big data and identifies three key areas that form the crux of their understanding of these areas: competency and perceptions, budgets and strategy and adoption. The research further reports that 63 percent of decision makers in India indicated that they have had to create new roles within their organization as part of their adoption strategy for cloud solutions, while only 19 percent of decision makers surveyed rated their organization as underprepared to harness the power of big data. Measuring the impact/return on investment (ROI) of big data initiatives was the top concern for 51 percent of decision makers with only 33 percent of these decision makers wanting to harness big data to make a measurable impact.
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